Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-15
DOMESTIC.

thew will lose little or nothing by the bank
failure. but the receiver has not yet beef
able to prepare report upon the condltlol
of the concern. Loans to the amount o
$4,000 upon worthless securities are g1vel
as the cause of the collapse.
The crop of tsnegro instructions" at thu
south seems to be unusually abundant thu
season. A dispatch. from Brook haven
Mississippi, reports that about three hundred
reapers, with shotguns, were harvesting I
coIored disturbance near the line of Pix.
and Lawrence counties, in that state, and
that reinforcements had gone from Brool
Haven to assist In s'saving" the crop. NJ
definite information as to the progress made
or the extent of the field, has been received
The people of st. Joseph, Missouri, art
urging the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy
railroad to give them fast train direct tt
and from Chicago. The distance, 1853 miles
is now made in nineteen hours. and the st
Josephans think, with some reason, that the
time should be reduced to fourteen or fifteen
hours.
Mr.. Bayard, secretary of state, does moi
think the German assumption of sovereign
power, in the Samoan islands, requires any
action on the part of the United States. Un-
der treaty with Samoa, the American gov
eminent is entitled to the use of fine har-
Dor and coaling station, but this right has
not been put to any uses Germany has as
sured the Washington authorities that her
intention is not to annex the Samoan group,
but only to punish the dethroned king fol-
alleged unfair treatment of German trad
ing company.
In a suit brought by the state of Pennsyl-
vania against S. M. Bailey, lately state treas
urer, the supreme court of that state has de-
cided that Bailey and his bondsmen are re-
sponsible for about 100000, the money
,%o1 1,, no frno Nv,
banks that failed.
Anarchy came out second best in an en-
counter with the police at Union Hill, near
New York. An anarchist meeting had been
called, but the police took possession of the
hall and refused to admit the mob. Some Of
the anarchists made a rush upon the officers
but the clubs of the latter quickly subdued
the riot.
At the Adams house, in Chicago, Thomas
and Edward Moran, brothers, were found
dead in bed. They had blown out the gas.
They were from Ardoch, Dakota, and were
on their way to Emporia, Ontario.
The National Farmers alliance is holding
its annual convention at Minneapolis. The
alliance has sixty thousand members in
Illinois, Iowa. Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and some
other states.
All Foo has been arrested in Greenfield,
Massachusetts, for enticing little girls into
his laundry and criminally abusing them.
All Foo is undoubtedly a william, and
deserves much more summary treatment
than his crime is likely to bring hin in Mas
sachusetts.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, the railway build
ing rabble are loudly reviling Mr.. Norquay,
the premier, because he failed to get ST.
coo, 600 in cash upon provincial bonds illeg-
ally issued. The chief justice has refused to
sustain the Injunction against the construc-
ton of the railroad applied for by one Brown
ing, but held that the province has no au-
thority to build the road under the public
works act. The matter will be carried to
or courts.
Mr.. O'Brien, special agent or delegate
of the pope, expressed to Montreal report
er his confident belief that "the Knights Of
Labor, like other institutions of a similar ma
ture, will soon sink into oblivion" The rea-
SONS for the belief, or the inspiration of the
prophecy, were not explained.
Loven Cheney, Wisconsin pioneer, cut
his throat with razor and then drowned
himself in pond, at Emerald Grove, near
GAINESVILLE.
The Russian government is about to levy
q tax on marine and railway passenger
tickets.
The Mexican congress is about to pass an |
act abrogating the constitutional provision !
against the election of presidents for second I
terms. Two-thirds of the states have already |
adopted the amendment.
It is Officially" announced that Mr. John |
L. Sullivan, Boston's very distinguished cit
izen, is going over to England to argue the /
question of pugilistic supremacy with any of |
Queen Victorias subjects who may happen |
to think they know something about bruis-
ing. Mr.. Sullivan may reasonably hope to
take place as high as that achieved by Mr..
The Illinois Masonic Grand Lodge has
closed its annua! session in Chicago, after
three days of labor.
Mrs. Clarissa Cox, of Wakefield, Masschu
,etts, who has daughter 81 years old, cele-
,rated her one hundredth birthday.
The Illinois state board of livestock COM
nissioners has decided to permit exhibitors
% bring their cattle to the fa'-stock show
n Chicego in spite of quarantine regula-
ions.
In his reports to the Knights of Labor
at Minneapolis, the secretary of
he order stated that on July 1, there were
5000 members in good standing.
1t is said that Lord Salisbury will visit
Prince Bismarck in the near future.
The secretary o. the treasury finds the APP
preparation fo1 collecting the customs rev.
snue running short, and has consequently
ssued an order requiring officers having
to nominate persons for appoint
nent IN the customs service to snake such
recommendations as will cause the least
possible expenditure consistent with q
prompt transactit n of public business"
A prize of 500 marks has been offered by
he Nautical society of Hamburg for the
,est essay on the subject of calming the sea
" the use of oil.
A woman living near Moweaqua, Illinois,
urious-looking white worm,
learly two feet long, between the leaves of q
abbage. A local physician, in whose possess
ION it now is, says that it is something en-
rely new to him in animal life. His theory
3 that it came in the recent rains. He pro-
noses to send it for examination to the state
at Champaign.